Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Will Rackspace support Google's or Amazon's clouds? - Fortune

A business model predicated on Amazon and Microsoft offering inadequate cloud support?

"Rackspace, a true cloud computing pioneer, is starting to sound like a company that will focus more on taking care of clouds other than its own.

“Supporting other clouds makes sense and is consistent with our heritage,” CEO Taylor Rhodes said on the company’s first quarter earnings call Monday night. The company is having “good conversations” with potential partners, he added, without providing names."